Book Arts Mentorship Award

Meet the Mentors

Julie Chen is an internationally known book artist who has been publishing limited edition artists’ books under the Flying Fish Press imprint for over 30 years.

Her books combine text and image with innovative book structures to create reading experiences that engage the reader in interactions that go far beyond the simple turning of a page. Her work can be found in numerous collections worldwide including the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and the Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland, NZ. In 2009 she was a featured artist in the PBS television series, Craft in America and in 2020 she was one of the featured artists in the documentary film, The Book Makers. She is a professor of Art at the University of Wisconsin- Madison.

Julie requested to work with an experienced book artist who is interested in focusing on content development for artist's books in which text, image and book and box structure all contribute in meaningful ways.

Zach Clark is an Oakland, CA based artist, educator, and publisher, publishing as National Monument Press, a publishing project focused on supporting uniquely American stories through small edition printed matter and curatorial projects, completed largely through collaboration with other artists.

He received his BFA from University of Illinois Chicago, and MFA from University of California Davis. His work is rooted in locational memory and is based in the intersection of printmaking, photography, and publication. He is one half of Chute Studio, an Oakland-based Risograph publishing studio. He is a lecturer at California State University East Bay, and has shown, worked, taught, and is in collections across North America, Europe, and Japan.

Zach requested to work with artists looking to create serious book works that embrace and acknowledge the quirks, limitations, and possibilities of Risograph, with a positive attitude towards experimentation with the unexpected.